Nigel Farage claims the Tories showed "wholesale disregard for the law" in the election campaign for Thanet South, but he won't be complaining because he doesn't want to look like "a whinger".

The Ukip leader told Channel 4 News that he could be accused of "sour grapes" or laughed at if he complains about allegations the Conservatives spent more than double the legal limit to campaign for the seat that he lost out on in 2015.

"I have no doubt that what happened in that Thanet constituency was in complete breach with electoral law," Farage told host Jon Snow.

If Farage is that sure he should be lodging a formal complaint.

If he had been pipped at the election post by Labour you could bet your bottom dollar he would have complained immediately.

But Ukip and the Conservatives are in many ways one and the same, two right wing political parties.

Farage was an early campaigner for the Tory party beginning at school. But the European Union was always his political stumbling block.

According to Wikipedia he voted for the Green Party in 1989 purely on their stance on the EU. By 1992 he waved goodbye to the Tories "in protest at Prime Minister John Major government's signing of the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht."

So rather than accuse Farage of sour grapes over Thanet South many will accuse him of cosying up to the Tories.

The Tory government hangs on to the balance of power at Westminster by a mere 12 seats.

That means each and every Tory seat is precious to them and they will not want any snap by-elections.

But election fraud is a serious matter and if the Conservative party is guilty then there must be some form of action.

Ukip's only MP Douglas Carswell won't be raising the matter in the House of Commons either but then he was a Conservative MP before he jumped ship and joined Ukip.

Watch the video below and decide if the Tories swindled the Thanet South election for yourself and why Farage has not lodged a formal complaint.

Perhaps the up and coming EU referendum is why Farage and others want to maintain the status quo.

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